double - Asterisk and Fortran statement

Question

I have a Fortran 77 code that shows a comment in the first column and written double precision in the same line. now my text editor (Notepad++) is showing that as a statement. I am confused if it is a statement or a comment.

*   double precision Ct,Jt,PDt,AeA0t,Zt,Cq,Jq,PDq,AeA0q,Zq,
*   &Kt,Kq,Eta,J,PD,AeA0

Answer 1

It's a comment. If there's anything other than a whitespace in the first column of a line in a fixed-form fortran (That is Fortran up to F77), it's a comment.

These variables are not declared, but if the code doesn't have an implicit none, they would be implicitly declared, some as REAL, some as INTEGER.